Enough

You might never know about yourself enough to know the whys

The things that drive you to and from a person or a place

A feeling or a face, a reason not to stay and do something you love instead

And you might keep the candle burning at both ends

Until there's nothing left to give a glow

And slow you down

And let you just breathe in and out

In and out

And you'll say

My god I got it all

Here's everything I want

But still the high ain't high enough

It's like that wise man said

The birds always get fed

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

The world conspires the day you surrender yourself to being yourself In all your glory

All your guts and fuck ups and magic mistakes that made you exactly the way you woke up today

Imperfect and uncompromising

And you can run after fast cars, gold stars, wine bars

And drink nights away with people you don't really love

And surrender to the woozy way you lose yourself

But your heart might always be half what it's meant to be

 

And you'll say

My god I got it all

Here's everything I want

But still the high ain't high enough

It's like that wise man said

The birds always get fed

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

Ain't that enough

And when your 16 years or 50 years or 97 years of living on this earth amount to one single life

Will you look back at the stack of fears you shackled yourself to in the hope of becoming taller

Trying to touch an ever moving sky

Or will you see that you've digged deep down into the dark

Worked out who you are

Forgotten your past

Let go of the future

Let go of yourself

And realised that everything you need is right here